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Russia’s leadership directly involved in deportation of Ukrainian children, their adoption by Russian families – ISW
KYIV. Feb 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Russian Federation Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova on February 16, confirming that the Kremlin is directly involved in facilitating the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families, according to the report of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
“Lvova-Belova confirmed that Russian regional governors are facilitating adoption efforts … Lvova-Belova’s and Putin’s meeting is likely a result of Putin’s January 3 list of instructions to Lvova-Belova and the occupation heads of occupied oblasts directing them to take a number of measures ostensibly to support children in occupied areas of Ukraine. This meeting is additionally noteworthy because it suggests that Putin himself is overseeing and directing efforts to facilitate deportation and adoption programs, which ISW continues to assess may constitute a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” the message reads.
The report also notes that the Russian occupation authorities continued their attempts to integrate the occupied territories into the Russian legal system.
